City Stops Requiring Passwords from Job Applicants

The city of Bozeman, Mont., has rescinded its long-standing policy that job applicants provide user names and passwords to social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. According to a press release: "The extent of our request for a candidate's password, user name, or other internet information appears to have exceeded that which is acceptable to our community."

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